Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The man directly responsible for the Navy's improved press relations in the Pacific is Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' able new press chief, Captain Harold B. ("Min") Miller, 42, an Annapolis-trained airman, torpedo expert, author (short stories in Cosmopolitan, American Magazine), former U.S. Naval Air Attache in...
The story was prosaically entitled Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1944, from Navy Secretary Forrestal to the President of the U.S. More than any one thing, the report made this point: America's naval force was built and manned not by Annapolis-trained professionals but by civilian amateurs.
At Annapolis, Navy crews are currently rounding into top shape after a winter of rigorous indoor practice and, more recently, workouts on the ice-free Severn.
West Point and Annapolis long ago outgrew competition from civilian colleges.* Last week the two service academies looked like the best basketballers in the land. Other teams had risen only to fall; they alone went on unbeaten.
Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis, Md.